{"id":1360,"date":"2007-09-15T18:25:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T18:25:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T18:25:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"Government misses a standing challenge, and defendant prevails in a government authorized private search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant received a package at work that apparently was intended for him but did not have his name on it. In it was marijuana. A private search occurred, but at the insistence of a government agent, so the Fourth Amendment applied, and there was no exception to the warrant requirement. [The government glaringly did not claim lack of standing, which it should have because standing generally requires both the defendant&#8217;s name be on the box as a <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=shipper_whose_name_was_not_on_a_box_ship&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">sender or recipient<\/a>.] United States v. Penass, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67611 (E.D. Wis. September 12, 2007).*<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where a motion to suppress evidence obtained from the execution of a warrant does not present a novel question of law that should be decided in order to guide future law enforcement officers and magistrates, it is appropriate for the reviewing court to turn directly to consideration of the officers&#8217; good faith reliance on the warrant. [<a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=468&amp;invol=897\"><em>Leon<\/em><\/a>] at 925.&#8221;  [Of course,] the good faith exception applies.  United States v. Preciado-Avila, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67637 (E.D. Pa. September 12, 2007).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}